The Rhythmagic Orchestra - The Rhythmagic Orchestra - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

John McLaughlin is regarded as one of the greatest guitarists in the history of music. Making albums from the 60's through the present, his intense guitar work with the Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis gave birth to jazz/fusion. In 1984 he formed a reincarnation of sorts of the Mahavishnu Orchestra. Featuring original Mahavishnu drummer Billy Cobham, plus saxophonist Bill Evans and bassist Jonas Hellborg, this high-energy electric album is regarded as one of his best efforts and has been his most sought after album for CD reissue. It is making it's worldwide CD debut! Wounded Bird Records.

One of the most talented and adventurous of all producers on the electronic music scene who has been specializing lately in the downtempo, lo-fi world, Billy Paul Williams is more legit than most - and the reason being is that BPW is not only a great technician, he is a supremely gifted musician - as proven by his work over the years with many different styles of music and the innate musical knowledge he brings to the table, no matter the genre or medium he's working in at the time. Simply put, he's just so much more musical than most of his contemporaries - and a lot of that has to do with intuition as much as his obviously superior musical abilities. When listening to BPW's work, no matter what the medium, you never hear just a calculated technician - you hear music that is natural, no matter how electronic - you can hear a human being producing art that matters. BPW's latest project leans on the jazzier side of house music with the full-length album InchSilicon Swing & Prohibtion VibesInch featuring The Replicant Jazz Orchestra. One of BPW's most ambitious projects to date, the 13 tracks that comprise the album each have something special to offer, including InchLet's Remember The Good Times,Inch which features Valerie Carr, who lends her vocal prowess to the jazzy proceedings .

Organist Stephen Farr continues his survey of works by Johann Sebastian Bach with one of the composer's major collections of organ chorale preludes - the Orgelbuchlein. This unfinished compendium of miniatures, said by Mendelssohn to bear 'most evidently the marks of his genius', contains much variety with each of the forty-six completed works containing a well-defined and individual character. For this recording, Farr performs on the eighteenth-century Trost organ of Waltershausen's stunning Stadtkirche in Germany.